vroom

English

Etymology

Imitative

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /vɹuːm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /vɹum/, /vɹʊm/
  • Rhymes: -uːm, -ʊm

Interjection

vroom

  1. The sound of an engine revving up
    I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

Translations

Verb

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

  1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

See also

  • putt putt
  • vroom, vroom

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vrōme, from Old Dutch frumo, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vroːm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -oːm

Adjective

vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)

  1. pious, devout
    Synonym: godvruchtig

Inflection

Inflection of vroom
uninflected vroom
inflected vrome
comparative vromer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial vroomvromerhet vroomst
het vroomste
indefinite m./f. sing. vromevromerevroomste
n. sing. vroomvromervroomste
plural vromevromerevroomste
definite vromevromerevroomste
partitive vroomsvromers
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